Wïkïd

21 January 2005. Inspired by .

The spoof band Spinal Tap raised the stakes in 1982 by using an umlaut over the letter N, a consonant. This is a construction only found in the Jacaltec language of Guatemala, although it is questionable whether the writers of This Is Spinal Tap knew this at the time.

One of the wonderful things about Wikipaedia (apart from free, fact-checked by the community, archiving of points of dispute, fast-reacting to news, etc) is that it does semi-academic investigation into things that you wouldn't expect. Of course, so do academics, but that stuff is usually much harder to find.

Which is a long way of saying that I'm going to fish out my History of Top Trumps and submit it right now.

Update: inevitably... Still, I can add to it.